The Daily, a news iPad app from News Corp., has hit 100,000 paid subscribers after being in existence a year. They celebrated their first birthday today with some good news. The iPad app was started shortly after controversy with Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., having quite the fit over services such as Google News and other outlets making it very easy to consume content online.

Ad revenue just doesn’t stack up and the CEO firmly believes in people paying for content which, if it’s absolutely exceptional and exclusive, that can be somewhat understood. Either way, their experiment into a completely mobile news experience, seems to be paying off for them.

Via Mashable:

“The publication has amassed more than 100,000 paid subscribers on the iPad, making it the third top-grossing iPad app in the iTunes Store last year. Of those 100,000, about half pay The Daily‘s $0.99 per week subscription fee, and the other half are annual ($39.99 per year) subscribers, according to publisher Greg Clayman.”

“Earlier this month, The Daily launched its first Android editionfor Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets. Now the digital newspaper is gearing up to release versions for iPhone and Android smartphones “in the next month or two,” says Clayman, thereby making its content available to the millions of consumers who own smartphones but not tablets. It will also allow existing subscribers to more easily access The Daily‘s updates throughout the day.”

Not too shabby at all. And with the app coming to more Android tablets, as long as they keep delivering good content and a solid user experience, they can definitely look forward to seeing those numbers grow.

Have you checked out The Daily app yet?

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News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch may have just recently joined Twitter but his attacks against the British and now President Obama and Google have quickly become top trending topics on the social network.

Murdoch might be the only media based CEO is the world who doesn’t realize that internet users are turning away from companies that back the “Stop Online Piracy Act” known as SOPA. In his first Tweet he stated:

“So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery,”

He then called Google a “piracy leader” since the site’s search engine can lead users to illegal downloading. In his Google attack Murdoch wrote:

“Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying.”

In response to the Tweet a Google spokesperson lashed back at the ridiculousness of Murdoch’s tweet:

“This is just nonsense,” said a Google spokesperson. “Like many other tech companies, we believe that there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking US companies to censor the Internet.”

For those not familiar with SOPA the bill would allow sites to be shut down completely if a copyright owner makes even simple complaints against any part of a websites content. Websites including Wikipedia, Craigslist and others have claimed that had SOPA existed when they were first founded they wouldn’t exist today.

It should be noted that Fox News receives millions of visitors from Google’s search engine and Google News platform.

Do you think Rupert Murdoch simply wants SOPA to be passed so his News Corp. can gain more control in the online space?

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Remember Myspace? It was a hotbed for teenagers to connect and chat with their friends, and had some popularity with the adult crowd. Recently, Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter and he’s been fairly active.

Being that he is the main guy behind News Corp., the company that bought Myspace back in 2005 for $580 Million, a lot of people have been asking him about the social network. Murdoch came clean and said, “Many questions and jokes about My Space.simple answer – we screwed up in every way possible, learned lots of valuable expensive lessons.”

Quite the statement, but seeing how quickly Myspace dropped to the bottom after being at the very top, many mistakes were definitely made.

“Fast forward to June, 2011: News Corp dumps MySpace for pennies on the dollar to investors including Justin Timberlake, who in an unscriptable life-imitates-art moment portrayed Facebook co-owner Sean Parker in the hit film The Social Network.”

“Buy, don’t build” can make a sound strategy, and MySpace was even arguably the market leader until 2008. Murdoch’s initial instinct was correct — even though the execution was awful — and it’s good that a total disaster like MySpace didn’t make him gun shy about his not-quite-as-big best last year on The Daily.”

Everyone makes mistakes. Social networking at the time was a very exciting and powerful medium, as it is today. Before the likes of Facebook rolled around, Myspace was growing at a rapid rate and the possibilities were exciting.

While things didn’t work out, the best thing one can do is learn from it and move on.

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News Corp. founder and CEO Rupert Murdoch made his Twitter debut less than 48 hours ago and he’s already receiving negative publicity after posting a comment about British holidays.

In a Tweet on the site Murdoch wrote:

 ”Maybe Brits have too many holidays for broke country!”

Following his tweet his own wife who joined the website at the same time as Rupert wrote:

 ”RUPERT!! delete tweet!!”

It turns out one of the most powerful moguls in media had a weakness for listening to one person, his wife’s warning quickly led to the deletion of the message.

Murdoch said to his 40,000 followers:

“I’m getting killed for fooling around here and friends frightened what I may really say!”

In any case Rupert Murdoch’s move to the internet is a big step for the businessman who just in 2009 told Vanity Fair that the internet was nothing more than a having for “predatory” practices. Murdoch also said cyberspace was just a place full of “porn, thievery and hackers.”

You would think that a guy who is in the middle of a phone hacking battle with British lawmakers would have a little more sense. He might run a multi-billion dollar business but Mr. Murdoch definitely knows how to act like an entitled little brat when the time calls for it.

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Forget Wall Street analysts who earn millions of dollars for betting correctly about the market, News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was paid millions of dollars for literally toppling a 167-year-old news institution overnight while creating an international slap in the face to her bosses.

The Guardian has revealed that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. agreed to pay Brooks $2.7 million while providing her with a chauffeur-driven limo for two years and a posh office in London for the same period of time.

According to one MP investigating the Brooks situation:

“It is remarkably curious that such an generous package is given to Ms Brooks when others have been cut loose.” That same MP adds, “It is almost as if she hasn’t really left the company. I am sure Mr Murdoch will want to explain the decision to his shareholders.”

Renewed interest in the Rebekah Brooks situation comes just ahead of a new appearance by James Murdoch in front of the Commons committee this week, in that appearance he will be asked to describe discrepancies between his previous testimony and the testimony of his company’s top lieutenants.

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Police investigating the News of the World phone hacking scandal say they have uncovered 11,000 pages of notes from professional snooper Glenn Mulcaire. In those notes investigators say Mulcaire spied on 5,795 potential victims of the phone hacking scandal.

If that number is true it would be nearly twice the estimated number of hacked phones originally reported by The Guardian two years ago.

Police at this time are cautioning that an exact number of hacked phones is hard to determine and they believe their numbers will be revised in the future as their investigation continues to move froward.

If increasing numbers of phone hacks isn’t bad enough news for News Corp. (owners of the now closed NOTW) a Sun employee has been arrested on suspicion of bribing police. The new arrest was made as part of Operation Elveden a wide sweeping investigation into the corrupt nature of News International’s bribery attempts which has already witnessed the arrests of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson.

It should be noted that those numbers do not include an ongoing investigation also underway in the United States in which News Corp. employees allegedly spied on the victims of 9/11, their families and other people involved with the tragedy.

Do you think given the severity of these cases that investigators need to go after top level executives at News Corp., specifically the Murdoch family?

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In 2008 an outside lawyer working for News Corp. submitted various documents that warned of a a “culture of illegal information access” at the now defunct News of the World newspaper. The new documents could prove that News Corp. executives have been lying about their longtime assertion that they were unaware of the phone hacking scandal that sent ripples through the company.

The documents were revealed on Tuesday by the UK Parliament’s Culture, Sport and Media Committee which is examining whether or not News Corp executives including COO James Murdoch misled lawmakers who have been investigating the scandal for the last several years.

In the documents the committee says both inside and outside lawyers working with the media conglomerate were aware that the hacking issue went beyond a single rogue reporter at News of the World. 

In 2008 outside lawyer Michael Silverleaf wrote:

“There is overwhelming evidence of the involvement of a number of senior NGN journalists in the illegal enquiries into [redacted].”

The Parliament’s committee is attempting to determine if such findings ever made their way to Rupert Murdoch while a person close to News Corp. said the company’s CEO never saw the briefing.

Would it surprise you to learn that top level executives at News Corp. knew about the phone hacking scandal years ago?

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DirecTV customers no longer need to worry about a News Corp. blackout that would have affected regional sports channels, FX and other Fox-owned cable channels.

In a joint statement the two company’s said:

“We both know the past ten days have been challenging, but we’re pleased that both sides could eventually come together to ensure our viewers continue to enjoy Fox programming.”

The announcement comes after both company’s previously announced that a blackout would begin on November 1 if a new contract was not agreed upon.

While blackouts are typically avoided by last minute deals they are not unheard of, last October Fox pulled their programming from Cablevision for two weeks while contract negotiations continued.  In a strange turn of events Cablevision told their customers how to illegally obtain Fox shows during the blackout.

The current blackout was resolved just nine hours before News Corp. was to pull their programming from the DirecTV network.

It’s still unclear what agreements were made however News Corp. had been requesting large increases in the amount they receive from DirecTV in order to carry FX, 19 regional sports networks, Fuel, the Fox Movie Channel and the National Geographic Channel.

Among shows that would have been missed mid-season included  “Sons of Anarchy” and “American Horror Story.”

Other Fox stations were not included in this deal because of separate contract negotiations for various News Corp. properties.

Would you change TV providers if FX and other News Corp. stations were blacked out by DirecTV? It would be interesting to see how many people fought against the company’s early termination fee if they went elsewhere.

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DirecTV on Thursday filed an FCC compliant against Fox after the company spent the last week running newspaper ads and TV promos attacking DirecTV’s currently negotiations with the company.

In a letter sent from DirectTV executive vice president Derek Chang:

“In the midst of a dispute over cable programming, Fox is using misleading advertising informing DirecTV customers that “soon, in some markets, you may lose your local Fox station,” even though our retransmission consent agreement does not expire for over two months.”

Fox went public with their attacks last week when they told customers that some of their channels could be pulled by November 1 if a new contract isn’t agreed upon. The company’s current contract covers Prime Ticket, Fox Sports West, FX and National Geographic. The company also has another contract that expires on December 31 and includes 27 Fox ownered and operated stations.

Fox took out a Sunday full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times in which they said Los Angeles residents could “soon” lose Fox 11 and Fox 13 if a deal doesn’t arrive momentarily.

In their complain DirecTV says:

“The carriage agreement between DirecTV and a number of cable networks controlled by Fox Cable Networks, Inc. expired on September 30,” and “Although the parties have been negotiating for months, Fox continues to demand that DirecTV customers pay significantly more for the same channels they already receive. At present, DirecTV is carrying this programming under an interim extension agreement. If a new deal is not reached, DirecTV will suspend carriage of these cable channels on November 1.”

Under current reports Fox would like to receive an increase of up to 40 percent in carriage-fees.

In the meantime Fox (not surprisingly owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corp.) has went on a propaganda campaign by having various show creators threaten viewers that their favor shows could be pulled off the air before their seasons officially come to an end.

Here’s the full letter that DirecTV sent to William T. Lake, Chief of the FCC Media Bureu:

William T. Lake

Chief

Media Bureau

Federal Communications Commission

445 Twelfth Street, S.W.

Washington, DC 20554

Dear Mr. Lake:

I want to alert you to a disturbing development that relates to the broadcast stations owned and operated by Fox Broadcasting Company, Inc. (“Fox”). Specifically, in the midst of a dispute over cable programming, Fox is using misleading advertising informing DIRECTV customers that “soon, in some markets, you may lose your local Fox station,” even though our retransmission consent agreement does not expire for over two months. Furthermore while Fox continues to run these misleading ads, Fox has refused to provide us a separate offer for the continued carriage of its broadcast stations.

The carriage agreement between DIRECTV and a number of cable networks controlled by Fox Cable Networks, Inc. expired on September 30. Although the parties have been negotiating for months, Fox continues to demand that DIRECTV customers pay significantly more for the same channels they already receive. At present, DIRECTV is carrying this programming under an interim extension agreement. If a new deal is not reached, DIRECTV will suspend carriage of these cable channels on November 1.

Even if the Fox cable channels are no longer carried on November 1, the broadcast stations are covered under a separate agreement, which does not expire until December 31. Fox, however, is running advertisements asserting that DIRECTV viewers “soon could even lose” the Fox broadcast stations in their local markets. One such advertisement ran in the widely-circulated Los Angeles Times editions for Sunday,

October 23, a copy of which is attached hereto. In addition, Fox’s television advertisements on its local broadcast stations state that viewers could lose local channels (showing clips from Glee and NFL games) that are not subject to this agreement.

Ironically, at the same time it is airing these warnings, Fox has repeatedly refused to provide us with a separate offer for carriage of the Fox broadcast stations.

On the one hand, Fox has refused to negotiate in good faith for carriage of the broadcast stations. At the same time, it is informing DIRECTV customers that they may soon lose access to such stations, purposely conflating a potential November 1 deadline for cable programming with the additional loss of broadcast programming the delivery of which is assured through the end of the year. Fox is clearly abusing the public trust by its deliberate attempt to confuse and alarm consumers. Such conduct is certainly not what the Commission had in mind when it made Fox a steward of the nation’s airwaves entrusted to serve the public interest.

DIRECTV still hopes to arrive at a fair agreement with Fox before its subscribers are deprived of any programming. In the meantime, we have demanded that Fox immediately stop running advertisements that mislead consumers by suggesting that DIRECTV subscribers may not be able to receive Fox broadcast stations. To date, Fox has failed to do so.

Do you think Fox needs to lower their demands which would in turn cost satellite subscribers even more money? This is where “per channel” ordering would come in handy.

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News Corp. has reached a settlement in one phone hacking scandal. The company has agreed to pay the family of a murdered girl at the center of the case the sum of $4.8 million.

Under the agreement the family of Milly Dowler will receive $3.2 million with the rest of  the settlement being donated to a charity.

Dowler’s phone was hacked by employees at the now defunct News of the World, a scandal that led to further accusations and investigations around the world, including in the United States where News Corp. is accused of hacking phones that belonged to 9/11 victims and their families.

In a statement released to the press News Corp. founder and CEO Rupert Murdoch said:

“When I met with the Dowlers in July, I expressed how deeply sorry I was for the hurt we had caused this family.”

Murdoch also revealed:

“The behavior that the News of the World exhibited toward the Dowlers was abhorrent and I hope this donation underscores my regret for the company’s role in this awful event.”

According to reports Murdoch was directly involved in arranging the settlement for the Dowler family.

The settlement also comes just as News Corp. holds their shareholders meeting in Los Angeles.

Do you believe that a $4.8 million settlement makes up for the company’s violation of trust with their readers? With more investigations launched, falling stock prices and distrust around the globe that sum is only a small part of what the company has and will lose in the future.

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Fox issued a statement yesterday that brings along some potentially bad news if you’re a DirecTV subscriber. The network has apparently had a disagreement with satellite provider DirecTV, and if their carriage dispute isn’t settled soon, more than two dozen networks could be dropped from the satellite provider’s lineup.

A Fox spokesman had this to say about the carriage dispute with DirecTV:

“DirecTV sent us a proposal on Tuesday afternoon,” they said. “They have given us no chance to respond before taking an unnecessarily aggressive posture and going public. It is disappointing that they have chosen bad faith tactics over meaningful negotiation.”

The statement continues: “We have proposed to keep the Fox Networks on DirecTV for the same price, and on the same terms as they are currently carried while we attempt to work out a fair agreement. Unfortunately, DirecTV has decided that unless they get their way, they are going to pull the plug on their customers November 1.”

DirecTV, on the other hand, tells an entirely different story, one that conflicts with Fox Networks’ statement. According to a DirecTV’s statement, Fox Networks was trying to get a 40% increase in subscriber fees for their channels.

“We already provide News Corp. nearly a billion dollars a year for their channels, and we have no problem continuing to compensate them fairly,” DirecTV said in a statement, calling Fox Networks’ proposed deal “unfair and unwarranted.”

To further the finger-pointing shenanigans, a Fox Networks spokesman called DirecTV’s claims that they were attempting to get a 40% increase “ridiculous”, again pointing out that they offered the satellite provider to keep the same rates while a new deal is worked out.

DirecTV stated that while they hope to get the carriage dispute worked out, they’ll “do what’s necessary to protect our customers from excessive and unwarranted fee increases.”

Sources: Variety, LA Times

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In an attempt to avoid another News of the World incident News Corp. has setup an internal whistleblower hotline. The 24-hour “alertline” is meant to be used by employees who wish to report violations regarding the company’s ethics code.

In a document sent to all employees News Corp. has promised that even if the accusations end up being unfounded those employees will be protected from “retaliation” that could occur from their bosses.

The news of the hotline comes after both UK and US officials launched federal investigations over alleged payments that Murdoch employees made to police officers in order to obtain protected documents.

In the document News Corp. warns employees that bribery, especially against public workers in unacceptable, the document states:

“Gifts and hospitality that may be perfectly acceptable among private parties can be completely forbidden when the other party is a government official.”

No reward information or other benefits appear to be part of the memo which may scare many whistleblowers away for fear that retaliation will occur against them regardless of what a piece of paper states.

Do you feel that the News Corp snitch program can have any real effect on stopping illegal activities at the news agency?

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It looks like News Corp. and CEO Rupert Murdoch will be getting their U.S. based day in court sooner rather than later, Mark Lewis, a lawyer in Britain’s phone hacking scandal has announced that he expects the case to be filed with the next week.

Speaking to the Associated Press Lewis says his firm has hired Norman Siegel to take on News Corp. in the United States. Siegel represents the families of many people who were killed during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers.

Lewis also revealed that the case would be contested in New York.

It’s expected that this newest lawsuit will focus on the hacking of 9/11 victims and bribes made to foreign officials. There is also the possibility that the could turn into a class action lawsuit focusing on the FCPA.

In the UK Lewis represented the family of Milly Dowler, a 13-year old girl who was abducted and later killed only to have her phone records hacked and published by News of the World. Lewis is currently negotiating the biggest settlement yet from the phone hacking scandal.

Does it surprise you it took this long to have a civil case filed considering the fact that U.S. officials began probing into the matter so quickly and shareholders are already suing the company they are invested in?

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30 Rock star Alec Baldwin won’t be at the Emmy Awards tonight after he walked out on the show after a joke about News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch was cut from a segment he had recorded to open the broadcast.

Following a  Deadline.com confirmation of his departure Baldwin tweeted:

“I did a short Emmy pretape a few days ago. Now they tell me NewsCorp may cut the funniest line.”

The Emmy awards air on the News Corp. owned Fox TV network and apparently they were not comfortable attacking their own boss, especially in regards to the phone-hacking scandal which has given News Corp. more negative publicity than they have seen in years.

Entertainment Weekly spoke with Fox representatives who said cutting the joke came at the Fox level and not from top brass at News Corp.

Throwing some spin of their own into the mix, Fox officials say they cut the joke because it makes fun of a situation that carries with it serious allegations.

The clip has now been completely scrapped and Leonard Nimoy stepped in for a 100% re-shoot which will open the show.

Baldwin tweeted of the joke being cut:

“Fox did kill my NewsCorp hacking joke. Which sucks bc I think it would have made them look better. A little.”

I personally don’t agree with the decision by Fox officials, after all it’s not as if the scandal is going to disappear all together if one more joke is told about Rupert Murdoch and his employees boneheaded decisions.

Remember when Fox use to put anything on the TV just to be rebellious and different, I yearn for the Married with Children days when Fox was actually cutting edge and daring.

Do you think Fox should have allowed the joke to remain?

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Rupert Murdoch is watching as his News Corp. media conglomerate unravels and now word is surfacing that some of the company’s major shareholders have filed a lawsuit against News Corp. The suit alleges that board members knew for more than a decade that some of their US subsidiaries were engaging and even encouraging illegal hacking, not just on phones but also regarding competitor’s computers.

According to several different investment funds involved in the lawsuit, the News Corp. board “has not lifted a finger” to stop hacking attempts and therefore they have exposed investors to “undue legal risk.”

The specific lawsuit in question regards News Corps’ News America Marketing and NDS Group units. The former publishes advertising inserts for Sunday editions of newspapers and is already fighting five lawsuits for anti-competitive behavior, including computer hacking.

In one document a competitor alleges that the company’s CEO promised to “destroy” him if he got in News America’s way, telling the CEO “I work for a man who wants it all, and doesn’t understand anybody telling him he can’t have it.”

Since the News Of The World phone hacking scandal broke shares in News Corp managed to fall at one point by more than 25% while Rupert Murdoch and the rest of his family members continued testifying about their company’s practices in front of various investigative boards around the world.

Do you think shareholders should be suing News Corp. over their despicable business practices? The fact that this company is allowed to still exists amazes me beyond belief.

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Last week Fox Network announced that they were pulling all day after access for their shows being viewed on Hulu. Needless to say this sparked a bit of outrage but it turns out that outrage may not be the only thing the move has caused.

In a post by Ernesto over at TorrentFreak this morning he reveals that the team at the blog did a little bit of a quick review of download stats for two of the premier shows on the Fox Network: Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef, to see what effect this new 8-day delay was having on torrent downloads of the shows.

Well unsurprising it has as both shows have seen a radical increase in downloads.

Over the last week TorrentFreak tracked two Fox shows on BitTorrent to see if there was an upturn in the number of downloads compared to the previous weeks, and the results are as expected. For both Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef the download numbers have surged.

During the first 5 days, the number of downloads from the U.S. for the latest episode of Hell’s Kitchen increased by 114% compared to the previous 3 episodes. For MasterChef the upturn was even higher with 189% more downloads from the U.S. For MasterChef; the extra high demand may in part have been facilitated by the fact that it was the season finale.

Ernesto also noted in his post that comments on the various torrent sites thanked those who uploaded the shows saying that they had wanted to watch them legal but couldn’t. Meanwhile the comments on Hulu and Fox.com were definitely on the negative side of the scale.

Yup that was a smart move Fox.

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This story just keeps getting worse and worse. This morning Michael Söze reported here that Rebekah Brooks, a former chief executive of News International, has been arrested; and now we find out courtesy of a report in the Guardian Online that the man who started all this has been found dead.

Sean Hoare was the former News of the World showbiz reporter that came forward with the allegations that Andy Coulson knew full well about all the phone-hacking that was going on in the organization.

Hertfordshire police would not confirm his identity, but the force said in a statement: “At 10.40am today [Monday 18 July] police were called to Langley Road, Watford, following the concerns for the welfare of a man who lives at an address on the street. Upon police and ambulance arrival at a property, the body of a man was found. The man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after.

“The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing.”

Hoare, who has admitted to past drug and alcohol problems that have been dealt with, said recently that this is just the tip of the iceberg and that there is a private investigator with ties to the News of the World that could be coming forward soon.

As Hoare put it in an interview

 ”He may want to talk now because I think what you’ll find now is a lot of people are going to want to cover their arse.”

Hopefully this isn’t being investigated by the same police force that has been tied to this scandal.

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Hustler founder Larry Flynt isn’t happy with the way Rupert Murdoch is running News Corp following the recent News of the World scandal and U.S. investigations into the company’s reporting practices regarding the attempting hacking of 9/11 victims phones along with the phone records of the victims family and friends.

In an op-ed piece for the Washington Post Flynt writes:

“Simply put, he publishes what he wants,” while going on to add, “apparently regardless of how he gets information and heedless of the responsibility associated with the power he wields.”

Flynt then compares News Corp. publications to his own Hustler adult magazine, giving himself the win by noting:

“No matter how offensive or distasteful some people may find Hustler magazine and my other publications, no one has appeared unwillingly in their pages. I do not create sensationalism at the expense of people living private lives.”

Love or hate Larry Flynt, he makes a great point, when your publications are full of more lies than an adult magazine you have big issues to deal with at the top levels of your organization. It was one thing when Fox News was simply making up the news, it’s something altogether more pitiful when they attempt to steal that news from victims of tragedies.

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While News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch may have closed down News of the World over their UK phone hacking scandal, investigations into the company’s practices have not ended and are hitting closer to home with U.S. officials now investigating the publication (owned by News Corp.) for attempting to hack into the cell phones of 9/11 victims and their families.

Various lawmakers including Rep. Peter King had called for an investigation in the U.S. almost immediately after the scandal broke.

The investigation comes after reports began surfacing last week in which News Corp. employees attempted to bribe a New York City police officer in order gain access to phone records of British victims who were killed in the attacks and the phone records of their families.

At this time it’s still unclear if the FBI is involved or if the issue may be even more broad in scope.

It’s still unclear what, if any information News Corp. employees were able to obtain from voicemails and other phone records.

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